When NVIDIA Says Hot Chips, It Means Hot Platforms
TheNextPlatform, Friday, August 23rd, 2024
Nvidia hit a rare patch of bad news earlier this month when reports started circulating claiming that the company's much-anticipated 'Blackwell' GPU accelerators could be delayed by as much as three months due to design flaws.
However, Nvidia spokespeople have said things are on schedule and some suppliers say that nothing has changed, while others say that there has been some normal slippage.
We expect to get more clarity on the Blackwell situation when Nvidia reports its financial results for its second quarter of fiscal 2025 next Wednesday.
What we do know is that the Blackwell chips - B100, B200, and GB200 - will be a focus of a presentation at this year's Hot Chips conference next week at Stanford University in California, with Nvidia talking about the architecture, detailing some new innovations, outlining the use of AI in designing the chips and touching on research into liquid cooling for datacenters running these growing AI workloads. The company also will show Blackwell chips that are already running in one of its datacenters, according to Dave Salvator, director of accelerated computing products at Nvidia.